Director of Bands, Saks High School Gene Inglis, a graduate from Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, is currently beginning his 7th year as Director of Bands at Saks High School in Anniston, Alabama. He retired as Director of Bands for Rome City Schools June 30, 2003, completing his 11th year at Rome High School, which was created in 1992. Prior to that, he was director for 12 years at West Rome High School and 6 years at West Rome Junior High School. His first position was at Scottsboro Junior High School in Scottsboro, Alabama. He also served as the adjunct percussion instructor at Berry College from 1980-2003. Gene is an active member of Music Educators National Conference; Alabama Music Educators Association; International Association of Jazz Educators; Phi Beta Mu Honorary Professional Music Fraternity; and Phi Mu Alpha Professional Music Fraternity. He has served in various leadership positions in these organizations over the past 36 years including the State Band Chair for Georgia Music Educators Association 2001-2003. In the areas of marching, concert, and jazz performance, Mr. Inglis has served as adjudicator, conductor, and clinician throughout the southeast. Under his leadership, the marching, concert, and jazz bands in Rome City Schools have received superior ratings at GMEA festivals and approved events, as well as, performances at GMEA, AMEA, and IAJE Conferences. At Saks, the concert band received superior ratings at District and State Concert Band Competition 2004 through 2008; while the marching band has received superior ratings at marching band contest in Georgia and Alabama, including Best In Class and First Place in Division One in the Covered Bridge Marching Festival in 2004, The Mud Creek Marching Festival in Hanceville, AL in 2005, The 2006 Southern Classic Marching Contest at Jacksonville State University, The Concourse of Champions at Oxford H.S. in 2007, and The Dixie Jubilee Jam Marching Contest at Weaver H.S. in 2008. In January 2007, the Saks Concert Band had the distinct honor to perform as part of the AMEA In-Service Conference at the University of Alabama. Among his honors is the Outstanding Band Director Award for the state of Georgia in 1983 presented by the American School Band Director Association, Teacher of the Year at West Rome Junior High in 1976 and again at West Rome High School in 1990. In his first year at Saks High School, Gene was the schools nominee to the Jacksonville State University Teacher Hall of Fame system competition. He received the national award; the “Legion of Honor” presented by the John Phillip Sousa Foundation and the National Band Association, and was recognized at the Midwest Band Clinic in Chicago, IL, December 2002. Inglis received the “Citation of Excellence” presented by the National Band Association in 2007 and was listed as the Alabama recipient for the “50 Directors Making a Difference” in the December issue of Band and Orchestra Magazine. He is the past President of the Calhoun County Band Directors Association and the Gray Echelon, JSU’s Marching Southerners Alumni Association. Gene is married to the former Shenley Back of Gadsden, Alabama. They have three children, Tony, Allison, & Gena Inglis Nix; and two grandchildren, Taylor Brooke and Emma Grace Nix.

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